Cornea/External Disease News

LAS VEGAS — CSI Dry Eye Software has launched new technology that uses AI to assist clinicians in making a dry eye diagnosis and developing a treatment plan, according to a company executive at Vision Expo West.

There has been a sea change in the care of patients with keratoconus in the U.S. since the FDA approval of iLink corneal collagen cross-linking in 2016.

BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, Farhad Hafezi, MD, PhD, speaks about cross-linking applied to femto-CAIRS for the treatment of keratoconus.

Patients with type 2 diabetes and more severe peripheral neuropathy appeared to be at greater risk for developing dry eye disease, according to a study published in Optometry and Vision Science.

Prevent Blindness has declared Sept. 16 to 22 as Inflammatory Eye Disease Awareness Week and is offering free educational resources and expert videos for the public and eye care providers.

Sonoma Pharmaceuticals and EMC Pharma have entered into a co-marketing agreement to expand their eye care product lines, according to a press release.

Screening for keratoconus should be part of all pediatric eye exams. While this disease typically manifests around puberty, there can be signs of progressive keratoconus much earlier in some cases.

On Aug. 14, the WHO declared the clade I mpox virus outbreak in Africa to be a public health emergency of international concern.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Diane M. Hilal-Campo, MD, discusses Twenty/Twenty Beauty, the first ophthalmologist-formulated eye makeup line.